[MR] Atlantia Digest, Vol 87, Issue 16

[nualaofneedwood at aol.com]

Thank you. This was a most interesting reply. I sincerely doubt that any group of fighters including you would allow those who do not fight at all, say, a bunch of target archers, to decide to change the rules of your weapons game, all the while telling you that you should not be consulted because of course you don't know what's good for you! I would never presume to change the rules of your game if I do not intimately understand and participate in your game. I may be but a lowly peasant archer whose acquaintance you will never make, but suffice it to say, I politely disagree that archers should not have been widely consulted on the rules changes, which are not by any stretch of the imagination without unintended consequences for how, where, and even if we play our game. Yet I do agree that acceptance is the best path: I am sure I will have no more powerful voice in our 21st century version of medieval life than my kind had in the days in which we lived by the longbow and won wars for the English.

Nuala of Needwood






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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:59:13 -0400
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the crown chooses who their champion is based on whatever criteria they
wish.  there is a competition that declares someone the winner and they
become the royal archer much like the royal brewer but those are very
different.

as to your question regarding changes to rules and whether or not that is an
attempt to "kill archery in atlantia" while atlantia is, without question,
the driving force in the whole of the sca it is doubtful that rules made on
a society level are made to have some nefarious effect on atlantia alone.
all of our martial disciplines undergo constant review and rules are changed
as concerns become apparent.  sometimes those concerns are, well, pretty
silly and based on a bunch of "could be", "what if", might happen", "i
think", type of idiocy.  nonetheless, rules are rules and we all have to
adapt.  when it comes to rule changes it doesnt make a lot of sense to ask
those that are effected since the bias will almost always be "i like the way
we do it" so consulting archers, or fighters, or rapier folk, etc about
concerns that will change their game makes little sense.  the hope, and i do
say that with a straight face no matter how hard it is sometimes, is that
those folks that raise their hands and become empowered with "safety" are
actually looking out for the greater good.  sometimes they are wrong, more
often they are right.  however, what we all must do is accept any changes
and then provide feedback, if needed, should things need to be changed.

regards
logan

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